SALE SUMMARY
2018 2017
Offered 150 121
Sold 76 96
Top $2300 $2000
Av $1178 $1227
WESTERN Vic provided the buying strength at Jay-Dee maternal composites 11th annual sale at Binnum on Wednesday last week chasing high indexing rams.
But the final SA on-property sale for the season was in need of several more large orders to improve the clearance rate.
Stud principals John, Judy, Josh and Jackson Dowdy sold 76 of 150 spring 2017 drop rams, averaging $1178.
Landmark Naracoorte branch manager Richard Jennings bought the $2300 sale topper for Allen Cathness from Gippsland, Vic, who was bidding over the phone for his Lot 8 pick.
The August 2017 drop was 38 per cent Coopworth, 23pc Texel, 14pc Border Leicester, 9.5pc each of East Friesian and Finn, 5pc Dorset and 1pc White Suffolk.
It had a Maternal Carcase Production Plus Index of 140.5.
Four of the 10 registered bidders bought ten or more rams often going head-to-head on those with high ranking number of lambs weaned figures.
Koolomurt Pastoral, Coleraine, Vic, was the biggest buyer with 17 rams to $2000, averaging $1206.
Yat Nat Pastoral Company, Balmoral, Vic, secured 16 rams to $1700, averaging $1150.
Newlyn, Hamilton, Vic, bought 12 to $1600 averaging $1033.
Josh Dowdy said it was pleasing to see strong support from their long-time buyers and hear great feedback on the performance of the genetics with good carcase and mothering traits and high early growth.
“Now more than ever it is important to be breeding a maternal flock so you are not paying excessive prices buying in ewes for your breeding flock and also for biosecurity,” he said.
For the first time the comprehensive catalogue included micron testing with the sale rams testing as fine as 26 microns.
The Dowdys are having success with their own Jay-Dee maternal composite commercial flock weaning 120pc from their ewe lambs.
Landmark and Southern Australian Livestock were joint selling agents with Richard Miller and Mat MacDonald the auctioneers.
